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POPSNew quantum algorithm helpes solving big problems. “Large-scale linear systems of equations exist in many fields, such as weather prediction, engineering, and computer vision”, says Harrow. “Quantum computers could supply serious improvements for these and many other problems. For example, a trillion-variable problem would take a classical computer at least a hundred trillion steps to solve, but using the new algorithm, a quantum computer could solve the problem in just a few hundred steps”. The solution could also be applied to other complex processes such as image and video processing, genetic analyses and even Internet traffic control. Sounds pretty good to me!
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POPSSponsored search results lead to malware If you're not sure, verify the URL. Microsoft and Google have large payrolls, but the search giants don't employ literal armies to review ad submissions. If you're at all suspicious of an ad's legitimacy, check the URL via a service such as hpHosts, which tracks domain names that researchers have reported as malicious. Help vendors by reporting malicious advertisers. To report bogus ads on Google, e-mail security at google.com. This is likely to be more effective than reporting the site via the search giant's online form. If you discover malware purveyors advertising in Bing's results, e-mail secure at microsoft.com. Yahoo, however, offers only a Security Phishing Report Form.
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POPSNo More Fines - A traffic safety revolution * Small villages with populations of 200 people will not be fielding 20 man police department to patrol the half-mile of Interstate that passes through the village boundaries. * County Sheriffs’ departments and city police departments will redirect the man hours spent operating speed traps to dealing with real crimes and providing emergency services. * High profile enforcement binges will become rare events. * There will be far fewer people driving on suspended licenses which will result in more insured drivers (no license, no insurance coverage). * Significantly reduced case loads in traffic courts, perhaps resulting in the return of due process for persons charged with a traffic violation. * And, the allure of ticket cameras will also fade into oblivion.
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POPSNTSB: Controller didn't warn plane in midair crash Three factors are usually contributing to any catastrophe: negligence, recklessness (kind of boasting stupidity) and bureaucracy. If controller was on the phone and his supervisor ran somewhere - so it was routine practice for everybody in this airport. I am pretty sure pilots used this airport have a lot to say, although they also could prefer to keep their mouth shut since it is private planes in private businesses. It was said before that pilots of helicopters check for each other in the air. There is no any other control system besides pilots, covering their asses? Sound like bad joke, but if it is what was said...
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POPSMarketing On The Fringe The lessons are delivered in e-book and audio formats that teach members step by step on how to set up these traffic making systems. Visitors should start coming in to your websites within a few hours after you have successfully completed setting up the traffic sites.
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POPSVirtual Planetary Telescope: To Be Built on the World's 2.5 Billion Cellphones While GPS location is the key for many applications, exposing it is a major threat for privacy purposes. Location privacy needs to be addressed to make users comfortable with the telescope. These and many other questions related to security, incentives, data-mining, etc. need to be resolved for a fully functional, Internet-deployable, system.
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POPSHow the Internet Works in Iran " But if the destination is not on the forbidden list, it's allowed to go through. Outside Iran, the proxy servers are like transit points. Activists set up proxy servers on their own computers, using Internet Protocol numbers that don't appear on the forbidden list. Traffic from Iran can go through to those addresses with no problem. The data traffic is then forwarded to wherever it's destined to go, even if that destination is supposedly forbidden. During the post-election crisis, proxy servers have been popping up like thousands of computerized "Casablanca" cafes around the world. The Pirate Bay, a popular file-sharing site based in Sweden, launched an anonymous Net-surfing forum to help Iran's opposition - but most of the proxy providers are amateurs."
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POPSWorld's first passenger-carrying Monorail, reopened!!!
Kerry people do not give up easily, and a short stretch of approximately 500 meters of the Lartigue Railway opened to the public in Listowel in July of 2003. A new double-side locomotive and two carriages with capacity for 40 passengers were constructed by a railway specialist company in the UK, Alan Keef Ltd. This Heritage Railway was developed by the Lartigue Monorailway Restoration Committee, a voluntary organization from Listowel. The re-creation includes three platforms, two turntables, three switches or points, an engine shed (which houses the engine, coaches & work shop), a temporary mobile ticket office, one locomotive (no.4) which is an exact reproduction of the originals on the outside but is fitted with a Perkins diesel engine, one third-class coach and one guard third-class coach with a crossover stairway on one end. Considering the unavailability of any of the original drawings, this has been a tremendous feat of engineering, and once again people can experience t
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POPSHigh Speed Rail: A Genuinely Horrible Idea " Europe moves more people by rail, and more freight (i.e., heavier stuff) on trucks. Our intermodal system of truck-to-rail container transfer helps account for the fact that freight emissions of greenhouse gases are 155 grams per ton mile in the U.S. compared to 193 grams per ton mile in Europe." Another feature of High-Speed Rail will be the unionization of a major sector of transportation. Check out how that works in Europe before hopping on board.
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POPSTwouble with Twitters: SuperNews! All you Twitter addicts stuck in traffic, some good news. You might not have to risk your life any longer sending out one-handed Tweets on your Blackberry or iPhone, while trying to hide the fact that you are doing so under the dashboard. If you have OnStar in your car, you may soon be able to send and receive hands-free Tweets through OnStar’s voice-activated calling system. Andru Edwards at Gear Livediscovered the potential feature. Your voice messages will be converted into text and sent to all of your Twitter followers.
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POPSBig Brother is Watching You This is from my small hometown. Notice the flat land and blue sky. (It's a few miles to the mountains). Recently cameras were installed to catch traffic speeders (they must be tourist racing through). The stats on how much money comes in from this is impressive. But, lots of issues. Protesters pointed out all the data the government collects - and now this. A Foreign (!) private company runs the system: law & order for Profit!? The city no longer gets the traffic fines - the state does. This pocketbook reality helped a candidate become local sheriff promising to get rid of the traffic camera: He did so. Darn Australians! Next thing you know they'll be coming over here to introduce kangaroos and arrest non-Fosters drinkers. Ha. Ha. But do we really want foreign countries enforcing our laws for profit!? MyohMy. That's me on the right, btw, in red shirt, holding sign: "Read the Constitution, Please." Please. I've always believed in polite protest. It's a
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POPSGraffiti girl wins appeal against jail Our legal system has members giving it a bad name. This, a judge who perjured over a $70 traffic fine, and a sprinkling of others involved in various misdemeanours. The higher the position a person attains, the sillier the behaviour used to besmirch themselves, at times
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POPSSeven steps to a robot apocalypse step 1: robots crawl into sewage, water mains step 2: robots get lost, form a nest step 3: robots consume waste, tap into subway rails for energy step 4: robots reproduce at exponential rate step 5: robots consume sewer-living homeless, acquire taste for blood step 6: robots swarm out of sewers, destroy city step 7: robot apocalypse
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POPSLawsuit Says Google Was Unfair to Rival Site Mr. Kanter’s firm represents Microsoft in antitrust matters. Mr. Kanter said Microsoft “has no involvement in this matter at all.” Google said it had not reviewed the complaint in detail. “But as we have consistently made clear, the advertising market in which Google operates is highly competitive and advertisers have a huge range of choices,” said Andrew Pederson, a Google spokesman. Ben Hanna, a vice president for marketing at Business.com, said his company had no special relationship with Google. TradeComet said that Google initially welcomed SourceTool, which bought ads on Google to drive traffic to its site.
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POPSWanna' See What Happened To The Beeb’s Bear-on-Thames While we’re waiting for the explanations on how warmening causes records cold and snowfalls, everyone’s favorite Pommie Bastid blogger is warming up with some snow totty (NSFWarmalists), and reports that TomTom is tracking a 32-mile traffic jam tying up the M25. TomTom tracks 32-mile snow traffic jam 10:38AM, Monday 2nd February 2009 Sat nav maker TomTom claim its HD Traffic system has recorded a 32-mile traffic jam on the M25, as snow brings the south of England to a standstill. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/246428/tomtom-tracks-32mile-snow-traffic-jam.html# View Map Of South England Traffic-Jam http://photos.pcpro.co.uk/picture_library/dir_228/it_portal_pic_114477.jpg
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